The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-07 00:00:00

THE WAR IN DEN 3 LARK. (From the Times Special Correspondedse a t th e D an i s h Head-quarters.) DANISH HEADQUARTERS, SONDERBORG, April 1. (;Should the present war ever come to an end, and should those regions ever be allowed to breathe from the fearful storms that ravage them, perhaps the in terest awakened throughout Europe about them will bring hither those shoals of idle wanderers who ex plore the most untried or forgotten corners of the ' globe in quest of a sensation. Those who might thus be tempted to come and see the theatre of war will find here what nature intended to be the most blessed abode of peace. The handbooks a traveller supplies himself with on a projected tour in Den mark do not even mention such spots as the Isle of Alsen, or its Sound, or Fredericia and the entrance to the Little Belt. Yet the country has peculiar beauties and charms of its own, and during the sum mer months it would be well worth not only a pass ing visit, but a prolonged residence. Indeed, lam not sure any part of the Continent, cr even the most favoured rural districts in England, can combine such a variety of pleasing homely scenery, such a general aspect of ease and plenty, such a perfect haven of security and contentment. We have now got beyond the equinox, and the sun begins to woo those northern lands with greater assiduity than he bestows on the lower latitudes with which possession makes him familiar, and which he rather snubs as a husband than courts as a lover. The days are lengthening out, advancing towards that period of the year when the evening and the morning make but one cycle of daylight. What a morning it was yesterday ! What a loveli ness of heaven and earth ! I walked along shore from Sonderborg to Horup Hay, and saw before me the Dybbol Heights topped with their far-famed windmill, the fair bay of theWemingbund, the woody coast of the Broager Peninsula, and further on the mouth of Flensburg Fiord, the broad opening of the Gelting Bucht, and the low shore of the Schleswig mainland, far away to the narrow inlet of the Schlei. There was a stillness in the air, a brightness and purity in the sky, a calmness over all that broad extent of water, which would have soothed the nerves of a lion in the first fit of fever. The blue trans parency of the unrippled sea, the purple tints of the distant woods, the silver hem of the fleecy clouds, seemed to belong to happier Southern climates ; but for the comparative tameness of the scenery, and the absence of rocky peaks or bluff headlands, I might have fancied myself amid the shores of the Mediter ranean, coasting the Straits of Banifacio, or thread ing the channel of Piombino. Opposite, at a little more than one English mile's distance, the white sandy cliffs of the Broagerland glance in the sun, and lining all those by scores are the Prussian 24-pounders, at whose mercy lie Sonderborg and its Ladegaard, and the whole shore till very nearly the mouth of Horup Hay. Very keen eyes can easily descry the mouths of those for midable engines, and the artillerymen lazily loung ing about them. Behind the breastwork of the Castle or Windmill Battery on this side a Danish officer stands, tablet in hand, taking down every shot and shell hurled against the devoted Bastions 2 and 6, on the Dybbol line. For a long spell in the night, and since the breaking of morning, those batteries have been at rest, as if humanised by the unspeak able repose of all created things. But presently the ominous puff of smoke ariies from the embrasure. You count 16 seconds, and the deep booming re port awakens all the echoes of the abrupt Wemnaing bund shore; yet a few more seconds, and another muffled report tells of the bursting shell, of the scattered dust of the earthworks; possibly, of a crushed Dane, too unwary to be on the look out for the death messenger, or too slow in seeking the shelter under which his comrades are crouching. Such is the morning sports of the Prussians. Sucn, with little or no variety, are their manoeuvres for the best part of the day. The real harm done is but trifling—the noise either supremely beautiful or hideously appalling, according to the penaliar cons, itution and fancy of him who hears it. On my left as I proceed on my path, still within easy reach of the Prussian 24-pounders, agticniture plies her industry with the happiest disregard of danger. Farmer Petersen, the father of 12 daughters, mentioned in a former letter, drives his team afield with perfect trust, though he is aware that the thatched roof of the Ladegaard is by no means bomb proof, a 2d, that a single stray shot can at any mo ment set. his straw lofts in a blaze. The 12 damsels and the remaining female portion of the household have quitted the premises; but the head of the family abides, and the work of the farm goes on, notwith standing the encumbrance of men and officers, troopers and chargers, cannon and ammunition waggons, encumbering, trampling, upsetting every thing. The farm lands must be til ed, though the farm-yard is a camp ; the corn must grow and ripen, though it may be a matter of doubt whether Danish or German scythes are to reap it, whether nativo or foreign bakers will turn its fruit into the staff of life. APRIL 1, Rm. We have had a restless night. The Prussians have been digging and erecting parallels very dangerously close to the Dybbol bastions; and the Danes, aware of their intentions, opened fire upon them soon after midnight, and are at it even now. Should the Prussians carry their purpose into effect, and fire at the bastions from their new batteries in front, their projectiles could hardly fail to reach the town, and our position would become untenable. The very headquarters would have to be removed to Uikebol or Augustenburg. THE BOMBARDMENT OF DTJPPEL. GRAVENSTEIN, April 3. The following account of the first day's bombard ment of the Danish position at Duppel is derived from a Prussian source ; Tha bombardment of the forts began punctually at 2.30 yesterday afternoon from the eight batteries before Duppel and from Gammelamark. The morning was clear and fine. Officers came in at 9 o'clock from all the brigades and regi ments to receive the orders for the day. Artillery trains passed the cattle along the Sonderborg road. It soon be came known that the enemy, who had endeavoured to in terrupt the trench work and batteries recently constructed by constant fire during the night, had requested a truce. It was granted until half-past 1, the bombardment being ordered to commence an hour later. At 2 o'clock Prince Frederick Charles, with the general staff, rode at a sharp trot to the Felhernberg, the elevation between Vemming and Broacker, on the bank of the Vem mingbund, whence the entire line of the forts and of our batteries can be overlooked; thence the party went through Freudenthal to the trenches. From a distance ono could see the puffs of smoke, followed by the flashes of the guns, but without hearing the report, carried by the wind towards the sea. Soon, however, this changed, and the roll of the artillery became audible in the pauses of the military music, to which a wounded man who had died in hospital was being buried in Broacher churchyard. The bright sun shone over the scene ; the birds sang high in air above the fields; in front spread the broad Vemmingleund, with its waves of a clear blue. On the right were the steep heights of the Ganernelsmark, whence the Feldzengmeister battery and i t s comrades sent shot after shot thundering into Forts No. 1 and 2 , occasionally reaching even No. 4. The white smoke rolled slowly over the blue water, and we could see the heavy balls strike into the forte, No. 1 of which was remara-able for returning hardly any fire, where every now and then a tongue of flame shot out of No. 2. A dash of spray and a cloud of smoke upon the water showed where a ball fell short. On the left the thunder ot the guns rolled merrily along the whole line of the forts upon the northern bank, occupying the heights around the wind mill, From the ground in front of the forte where the trenches have been (111 4 " Lite a puff of smoke above the spurt of dense from eight place s at least every three or four minutes. These were the Prussian trench batteries, whence shot after shot thundered into the earthworks. After a time the Danes began to bestir themselves more actively, and pay less attention to repairing damages. Eco nomy of ammunition did not appear to have produced much advantage. The smo ke clouds rose slo wly into the air, and we could see the shells burst immediatel y above the forts. With a good glass we could clearly discover the rows ot alisades in front of No. 1, and it Was even possible to die inguish the Danish soldiers running to and fro. liere the turned involuntarily towards the Verunaingbimd to search it the Rolf Brake was anywhere to be seen. Yes, there she was cruising before the entrance to the creek, h er low, black h u ll h ar dly v i s ible above the surface of th e water. A f ew w hit e sa il s c i r cled round her like gulls, but maintained a respectful distance. The 40 guns in our batteries now gent shot after shot, and the forts replied, though not so rapidly. The batteries fired none but hollow balls, and these with so much preci sion that many were seen to strike in exactly the same spot. The rush of the heavy balls through the air, the thunder, which seemed to shake the earth to its very centre, were really terrible. Flames and smoke :were perceived three times in Fort No. 8, which was still burn ug at dusk. The barracks and huts in rear of the Danish wn , ke were set on fire. The projectiles of the "Feldzeu ;n eister' bat tery kindled fire thrice in Sonderborg, but t Lt. conflagration was soon extinguished. Our fire was c ntir ued through the night. Up to the present time our loss amounts to one officer slightly wounded, two men killed, and seven or eight wounded. A Tribute to T, P. Cooke. The following del;ghtful tribute to T. P. Cooke we find in the Standard of this morning : A great popular favourite is gone. The Dibdin of the English theatre is dead. T. P. Cooke— Thomas Potter Cooke—is no more. The son of the surgeon of Titchfield-street, the midshipman at the blockade of Toulon and the battle of St. Vincent, the hero of the wrecked Raven, who leaped from the deck to the stage, is to be buried in peace, beneath the sod of Highgate Cemetery. There was an attraction about this " old man agile" which marked him out amid the common multitude of players. Everybody liked him. No one—not even Miss Lydia Thompson —can compete with him in the sailor's hornpipe. Sixty years ago, almost exactly, a delighted crowd enjoyed his Jack Tar impersonations at the Royalty Theatre. Then he went to Astley's, flourishing under the regime of " real water." We—or our grandfathers, if you please —saw him at the Lyceum, subject to that despotic manager Laurent, who afterwards humbled himself so deeply as to become a Clown. Very grey headed people recollect him as Obi, or Three-fingered Jack; very hoary ramblers through the reminis cences of bygone evenings can recall him as the Poor Soldier. They bring back his ghost, by that complicated spectral apparatus which we style memory, upon the boards of Covent Garden, the Coburg, and the Adelphi; they talk of his Frank enstein, his Long Tom Coffin, his Dirk Hatterick, and his Duke of Argyle, Perhaps, however, one of T. P. Cooke's most rich performances has not been universally appreciated, because the joke was en joyed in secret. He was, year after year—so an atrocious babbler tells us—one of the Lord Mayor's Men in Armour on the 9th day of November. What, after this, were the characters of Varney the Yarn pire, Gordon the Gipsy, Epaulette of Fontaine bleau, Orson in the "Iron Chest," Rinaldo in "Gil Bias," or "the best Frenchman on the stage ?" His Frankenstein alarmed the Parisians. They vilified him as" walking corpse ;" but the dear tra dition of the English public is the William in " Black-eyed Sue"—the William of the white unut terables, the blue jacket, the black Byronic necktie, the whirling cutlass, the splendid hitch, the grand " avast," the chivalry of courage in defence of un protected females—" Al in the Downs." T. P. Cooke was inimitable. There was no trickery in him. He had studied the old-fashioned part of the old salt, and it became him honestly. The straw hat and the broad-collared shirt, the blue jacket and the bold song, the immaculate ducks and the light shoes, the contempt of foreign courage and, beyond all, the inevitable dance, which as a matter of course ensues when a British seaman has been married, hanged, murdered, or betrayed, made him the delight of boys, the wonder of girls, the mystery of those play-goers who asked whether Douglas Jerrold had been created for I'. P. Cooke or T. P. Ccoke had lived only for Douglas Jerrold. "Black eyed Susan" was a resurrection for the Old House in Surrey : it made the actor famous ; it saved the manager from bankruptcy ; it allured half London over the water ; it humbled Covent Garden into a plagiarism from transpontine vulgarity. In fact, T. P. Cooke was regarded as a living symbol of the British sailor, and he hornpiped it so long that, at length, when a great critic saw him flying through the dance iu his seventieth year, he said " It is marvellous ; but 1 wish he wouldn't do it." How - ever, until this veteran of the drama sustained his supreme loss in the death of his wife he walked lightly and erect, and his burden of seventy-eight years seemed no affliction ; but when she died, he told his friends, " I am mortally wounded now," and he broke down and has passed away. With deep regret we heard of this estimable artist's death. - We knew him to be earnestly anxious that his life might be prolonged until after the celebration of the Shakespearian tercen tenary. We heard of him labouring indefatigably with that best friend of the actor, I. W. Anson, on the Council of the Royal Dramatic College for the humbler and less prosperous belonging to his own long-misunderstood and maligned profes sion. We saw in him an example of family probity and homely providence that obliterated many a reproach from the character of the class to which he belonged. And it was an indication of his faithful, hearty, cordial nature that, having once been borne on the books of the Royal Navy, he in variably at the annual dinners of the General Thea trical Farad, returned thanks on behalf of that ser vice. Who more proud than he, in fact, of the St. Vincent medal? But who, again, more zsalous when a friend stood in need of help ? Who, remem bering how he had profited by " Black-eyed Susan," came from his sick-room, unsolicited, to play at the Adelphi Theatre, gratuitously and eagerly, for " The Douglas Jerrold Fund ?" That was T. P. Cooke, the player, now dead, who was born in 178 d, who by untiring industry, accumulated a fortune, who was unwearied and unstinting in his sympathy with the less victorious adepts of his profession, and who perhaps went successfully through a wider range of characters than any other actor of his time. His William, admittedly, was unequalled, and is the model which all future actors in nautical parts must regard, whether they earn £5O a night at Drury Lane, or 503. a night at the Royal Standard. His Duke Dorgan, in Mr. Buckstone's drama, was a masterpiece. His Harry Halyard, in Haine's " Poll and my Partner Joe," was an impersonation which, by all old-fashioned playgoers, will long be a plea • sant tradition ; while his Ben Trenant, in Mr. Thompson Townsend's piece " The Lost Ship," was precisely the sort of thing which, as Lord Dun dreary would put it,"cuts a fellah to pieces." Bright, jovial, active, and hearty, this veteran of the toot lights could have played anything that smelt of the sea, from the Ancient Mariner to " Post Meridian, half-past four," or from Tom Tough to Peter Wil kins, the Flying Woman, and " famous Admiral Jervis." But nothing ever came up to William and the Hornpipe, to 'William who would " never stand by and see a female assaulted," to William who rattled through, and rattled through it more blithe. somely than ever did other mortal man, the glory of the British sailor, the triumphant stampede of the deck, the dancing upon the Ark, the able seaman's " joy for ever," the original, genuine, indisputable double hornpipe. Who cares whence that pleasant jumping came Hawkins tells us that the dance was invented in England. No matter; it was danced by 'T. P. Cooke. The Tattler avers that we should say " pipe horn," and not " hornpipe.'' The innovation is not to be endured. The seven teenth edition of the "Dancing Master," published in the seventeenth century, d ec l ares t h at t hi s espe cial jig "must be in triple time, six crotchets in a bar, although the well known tune, The College Hornpipe,' is in duple measure." Does not this surpass all patience ? Who thinks of duple mea sures, or six crotchet& in a bar, when carrying back his memory to the pleasant days when "All in the Downs, T. I'. Cooke, the veteran of another century, cuts down his captain, rescues his Sue, stands in readiness for execution at the yard-arm, is saved, and appropriately betakes himself to the light fan tastic toe ? But, above this, there is a reason why we should give a kindly thought to the memory of the old man by whom we and our children have so often been amused, and who has row followed his wife, and the mother of an only daughter, to her rest. The dramatic profession, of late years, has risen higher than ever in the public estimation. it is acknowledged and supported by every class. It has assumed an independence never previously attempted. Its murals are, we may scrupulously affirm, from a general point of view, pure and exemplary. It is making every possible effort to destroy the old traditions of profligecy, mendicancy, and insolvent toadyism. No man worked mere genially towards those ends than did the late T. P. Cooke. We pay him this tribute, we dedicate to his name these reminiscences and regrets, because we sincer e ly f ee l that his passing away — a l t h oug h , in the fulness of time, and in the course of nature, after a long and radiant career—is a loss to the profession, an event concerning which the public cannot be indifferent—and an incident in the his tory of the stage which suggestively reminds us how different is the stage of our day from that upon which our grey-headed veteran, now dead, stepped from the deck of the Raven. THE - SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1864. made, but the original became their property, and would be forwarded to them with the decision of the coroner's jury. The body could either be buried by them or otherwise. After some remarks on the very melancholy character of the case, The jury returned a verdict of ' Suicide, while labouring under unsound mind.' Naval and Military Intelligence, THE NAVY. The Duke of Somerset will hold levees for the reception of officers of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines on the fol lowing Thursdays, at half-past 2 o'clock—April 21 and 28 and May 5, at the Admiralty, 'Whitehall. The Geyser, 6, paddle sloop, Commander Thrupp, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Sheerness and landed a crank shaft from the Chesapeake frigate for the use of the Urgent, screw, troopship, Capt. Henderson, now fitting out at Ports mouth for foreign troop service, the crank shaft c,f the Urgent having been discovered to possess a flaw which would render it unsafe for lengthened service. The repairs and outfit of the Urgent are being rapidly effected under the superintendence of Capt. Henderson, while at the same time all that is being now done in the way of fitting . will not undergo a fresh seri:: of alterations and arrangements on commission, as they are being tffected under the supe rintendence of the cfficer who will command the ship. The ordinary coutse followed with ships fitted out for classes in the steam reserve and subsequent commission is fur the officers of the dock) and and steam reserve to have the work done according to their ideas. A short time afterwards the ship is commissioned, when the captain appointed to command her generally alters everything on board, although she has been so carefully and expensively fitted by the steam reserve and dockyard officers. This of course doubles the expense of outfit. By the appointment, therefore, of a captain by the Admiralty to superintend the fitting of his own ship, as in the case of Capt. Henderson and the Urgent, the Admiralty have done wisely. In the French Imperial Marine the matter is much more simply managed. If a captain is appointed to a French man of war with her outfit and fittings completed, or in part completed, he must return all such fittings in the state he received them, and must not alter a rope-yarn or the colour of his paint without special leave from the proper authorities. Yesterday Vice-Admiral the Hen. Sir F. W. Grey, K C. 8., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, visited Chat ham Dockyard, accompanied by Rear-Admiral K. S. Robinson, the Controller of the Navy, and was occupied some hours in the inspection of the principal vessels build ing and fitting at that establishment, and in the transaction of other official business. In the early part of the day he went over the Bombay, 67, 400 horse power, in No. 3 dock, where she has been lying several months for the purpose of undergoing the necessary alterations and fitments to adapt her for a flagship. She is now completed, and to-day will be floated out of dock fully rigged and equipped, with most of her officers and a considerable number of her crew on board. Passing along the slips on which are lying a squa dron of wooden vessels of various sizes and in different stages of progress, Admiral sir F. W. Grey visited the shed under which the Lord Warden, ironclad, is building, which, with the exception of the Bellerophon, is the only new vessel on which there is a single hand now employed at Chatham Dockyard, Notwithstanding the brief period which has elapsed since the keel of the Lord Warden was laid down, the vessel is now well in frame, although the number of hands employed on her is necessarily limited in consequence of n early every workman being required to complete the fitting of the Achilles. In the afternoon, accompanied by Rear-Admiral Robinson, Capt. Stewart, C. 8., Mr. Thornton, master-shipwright, and the other officials, he embarked on board the City of Rochester and steamed out to the Achilles, which is being fitted for sea. During the interval which has elapsed since the vessel was visited by any of the members of the Admiralty consi derable progress has been made in getting her ready for sea, although there is much to be effected before she can take her departure from the harbour. The whole of her machinery and engines have been fitted, and she is getting well forward with her rigging, most of her lower rigging being now set up in its place. Atter spending same time in the inspection of the iron frigate Admiral Grey returned to the dockyard, and, having transacted official business with Captain Superintendent Stewart, returned to the Admiralty, The America target ship, at Portsmouth, will be placed under fire again to-morrow, to test a 4k-inch plate from Messrs. Beale, of Parkgate, Yorkshire for the Pallas, and a 44-inch plate from Petin, Gaudet, and Co., of France. The Royal Sovereign turret ship at Portsmouth has alarge number of hands employed upon her completing her outfit, but her decks are in an indescribable state of confusion, owing, apparently, to the peculiar nature of the greater portion of the work, the necessity for leaving as much room as possible about the decks, and the indeci,ion of the authorities as to many matters connected with her equip ment which ought to have been settled long since. The Adventure, screw troopship, Capt. Waddilove, sailed from Spitheal yesterday afternoon for a cruise in the Channel. If the ship continue, as at present, free from sickness of any kind she will most probably not return to Spithead, but proceed to Dover and embark troops there for China,and call in afterwards at Plymouth on her way down Channel for the military and naval detachments convoyed to that port from Portsmouth by the screw troopship Hi malaya. The Victoria, screw three-decker, of 1,000 horse-power, fitting out at Portsmouth, is ordered to be ready fur com mission by the end of May next. Sho has her spars all aloft, and the riggers are now engaged in fitting the ratlines on her lower and topmast rigging in readiness for a final blacking down. A good deal of the tilling-in round the upper part of her stern, externally, is being replaced with new work, the old having been found quite rotten, although the Victoria is a new ship. The Pekin gunboat, Commander Burgoyne, from Shang hai, having discharged her guns and ammunition at Wool wich Arsenal, was yesterday towed into basin in the dock yard to strip and return stores. Capt. W. Crispin has been appointed one of the Queen's naval aides•de-camp, vice Capt. Forbes, promoted to the rank of rear-admiral. ' ' The following appointments were made yesterday at th• Admiralty :—Staff Commander Alex, B. Usborne to the Fisgard, for surveying service— Lieut. Caa3ar H. Hawkins to the Research—Geo.Robinson, master, to the Duncan, for surveying service —L. J. Monteith, surgeon, to the Cum berland—John J. Willcocks, assistant-paymaster, to the Adventurer ; George T. Blundell, engineer, to the Sut lej ; David Robb, engineer, to the Stork; George Hole, Charles Heyward, and Robert M. Bryant, master's as sistants, to the Bombay ; Philip B. Aitkins, Thomas S. Hoghton, Francis N. N. Harvey, Marcus L. Bridger, Henry P. T. Skinner, Robert C. Gorst, James C. C. Dennis, Edmund S. Poe, Charles V. Strange, Richard G. Day, and Charles E, Morison, midshipmen, to the Bombay—Baldwin W. Walker, midshipman, to the Orlando —Thos. E. Suli van, midshipman, to the Hector—Francis R. B. Kemp, midshipman, to the Edgar—Thos. H. S. Robertson, Digby J. H. Hamilton, Douglas E. D. Curry, and Charles A. Stephenson, naval cadets, to the Bombay—H• J. Weds house and Wm. G. E len, naval cadets, to the Revenge— Francis C. B. B. Simpson, naval cadet, to the Liffey—H. F. Haszard, naval cadet, to the Duncan —Wm, N. Atkin son, naval cadet, to the Hector—Alfred R. Sims, naval cadet, to the Edgar—and Henry P. Routh, nominated to a naval cadetship. :The serg ean t s o f th o 10th d epo t b a ttalion at the camp at Colchester h ave presente d a h an d som e tea and coffee service to Sergeant. M aj or iJonolan as a mark of respect on his re tirement from the service. University Intelligence, OXFORD, April 6. The Regius Professor of Hebrew proposes to resume his lectures on the Psalms on Tuesday, the 12th instant, at 9 o'clock, beginning at Psalm lxvi., and to continue them on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturday, at that hour. The two elementary courses of lectures in Hebrew will commence on Wednesday, the 13th, and Thursday, the 14th inst. The first is intended for such as are just beginning the language, the second for those acquainted with the ru diments of grammar. Those who wish to attend the ele mentary lecturers are requested to call upon Professor Gan dell, Magdalen Hall, on Tuesday, the 12th inst., between the hours of 1 and 2. C A. 3111 RIDGE, April G. The Greek Professor gives notice that he will resume his lectures on the Republic of Plato, on Tuesday, April 12, at 12 o'clock. - - The Disney Professor of Archaeology g ives notice that he intends to deli ver f our l ec tures upon the "Aid of Numis matic Illustration in the study of Sac red Histor y , " onWed nesday, April 13, and the three following days, at 1 o'clock, in the Combination. room of St. John's College. The Downing Professor of Laws proposes to give, during the present term, a course of lectures on the Elements of International Law and its relation to the Municipal Law of England. The first lecture will be given at 12 o'clock o*. Monday next, the 11th Inge, at `Vest lodge, Downing Col lege, and th e course w ill be continued at the same hour in every subseq uen t d a y till further notice. The Teach er o f S ans k r it (Mr Mathew) will give lectures in rooms at St. Catherine's College during t h e Easter Term, on Monday s , Thursd a ys, and Saturdays, commencing on Thursday, the 7th of April. The junior class will meet at 11 30 a.m., the senior class at 10 a.m. The book for junior class, Professor Monier Williams's Nala ; the 13,0 k for senior class, Professor Johnson's liitopadesa. The gram mar to be used .7ill be Professor Monier Williams's Sanskrit Grammar, second edit' m. Gentle men are requested to leave their names at Messrs. Deighton, Bell, and Co.'s or at Messrs. Bl'MiVan and Co ' B. The following have passed the examination for the certifi• cats of the Professor of Chemistry :—Kenrick Kirkpatrick (,f Trinity ; Austin, Keeling, of Sr, John's ; D ear ,i; Christ's; E. It. Adams, Caius; and Carter, Pembroke. Persons in debt may obtain instant protection against imprisonment or seizure of their goods, and an entire release from all debts and liaLilities without publicity, by application to Messrs. Marshall, solicitors of the Court of Bankruptcy. Charges under .85 payable by easy instalments. Offices— (established 1830), 12, Hatton-garden. City brancl3--0, Moor gate-street, Sauk,—ADvx. BRAY'S TRACTION ENGINE, Yesterday the powerful engine manufactured by Bray's Traction-engine Company, to the order of the Russian Government, for military service, was tested in the neighbourhood of the Sevenoaks Junction station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail way, in the presence of a select company of engi neers and practical men connected with locomotive enterprises in almost every part of the world. Among those present were Mr. H. D. Davies, chairman of the company ; Mr. Osborne, director ; Mr. Clark, engineer; Mr. Cyrus Field, director of the Atlantic Telegraph Company ; M. Dudot, repra sentative of MM. Lafitte, constructors of the Mont Cenis Tunnel ; M. Blanc, of Paris ; Mr. Lewis Oirick, consulting and marine engineer; Mr. A. Chaplin, engineer, of Glasgow; and other gentle men of great practical experience. The ground selected for the trial was a steep ascent, in some places not less than 1 in 15 feet, on the old Maidstone road,which the continuous and heavy rain for somewhere about 36 hours previously had thoroughly soaked and softened. The experi ment therefore was made under every disadvantage, and the result all the more creditable to the company. The engine itself in full working order weighs 14 tons; the driving wheel is 7ft. in diameter; the two cylinders are 9 in., with a 15-inch stroke ; and the train consisted of 5 loaded waggons, weighing 45 tons. Up the steep, soft, and rugged ascent the engine smoothly and efficiently carried this heavy load at a speed of about 2 miles and a quarter per hour. The perfect command of the engine, and the ease with which the work was performed, elicited general and warm commendation from the engi neers and practical gentlemen present. The cost of the engine itself is £1,500, but other appliances have been added for the purposes of the Russian Government, including the derrick and steam lifting apparatus for raising timber, and other heavy articles, which increases the cost to about £1,700. The principle on which Bray's trac tion engine for common roads is constructed has been so often and so fully described that it is un• necessary to enter into details. The experiment, or rather demonstration of its capabilities, yesterday would have taken place nearer to London but for the prohibition of the Home Secretary of the use of those engines within 10 miles of London. As it was, the exhibition seemed to satisfy completely the select company who were invited to witness it. At one point the ground was so soft that the wheels of the heavily-laden waggons sank at least 4 inches into the ground, but the engine continued its steady pace, and reached the brow of the hill with ease and perfect command, which elicited general admiration. M. Dudot stated that he believed with a few alterations, which he would point out to Mr. Clark, the engineer the company, the engine might be made to ascend Mount Cenis, dragging heavy loads behind it. Mr. Davies, the chairman, said the object of the company was mainly to promote steam locomotives on common roads, and they had no fear but that the best engines would in the end obtain the largest amount of public support. Mr. Chaplin, of London and Glasgow, who has now become the sole manufacturer of the engines for the company, exhibited drawings of a new en gine, more simple, compact, and inexpensive, which appears to possess all possible requisites for the con veyance of heavy loads on common roads, or rough and soft surfaces, at a much less cost than they have heretofore been made by the company ; and, altogether, the party separated with the general conviction that this important branch of mechanical science is likely ere long to make such progress as to effect an entire revolution in locomotion, not only in this country but throughout the entire world. Suicide in Pentonville Prison. An inquiry of a melancholy character was insti tuted by Dr. Lankester on Tuesthiy at the Penton ville . iodel Prison, relative to the death of a pri soner, Valentine Bambrick, aged 28 years, who was found dead and hanging in his cell on Friday even ing last. Last week a similar inquest was held. Mr. Charles L. Bradley, medical efficer of the prison, said he had been told that ho (prisoner) fretted, as be was being unjustly punished for a crime of which he was not guilty. His mind was no doubt impaired,and he had suffered from delirium tremens, A letter was written on a slate by deceased, which might be worth the attention of the jury. - - On the production of the slate the Coroner read the following letter : "My dear, dear Friends and Family,—Becoming quite tired of my truly miserable existence, I am about to rush into the presence of my Maker un c4lled and unasked. To you I appeal forgiveness and pardon for all the unhappiness I have ever caused you. I dare not ask for mercy of God. I am doing that which admits of no pardon, but if He will hear my prayer, I pray to Him to grant you consolation in your hour of abliction, for I know that, notwithstanding all my faults, that love which you always manifeste towards me is not withheld yet, and therefore the news of my unfortunate fate will make time sorrowful. Pray for your unfortu nate son. "`SAL. BAMBRICK." " P.S.—Before I die, I protest solemnly my entire innocence of the charge for which I was punished, all but the assault, and that was done under the circumstances before mentioned to you in my letter. " God bless you all. Love to all my relations. Pity even while you condemn " Puon VAL." John Potter, a prisoner, said he was in the next cell to the deceased. He did not know until that afternoon that he was dead, when the deputy governor sent for him and told him. He only knew deceased by his number, C 21. Deceased had spoken to him twice. The first time he said, '° 1 have sent out a special letter, and I expect to be discharged." The second time he said he was an innocent man. The Coroner—Have you any complaint to make of the diet you have given to you Prisoner—No, sir ; I have meat every day. A juror —When the deputy-governor called you down, did he instruct you as to what you were to to say here ? Prisoner—No, sir. The foreman, referring to the statement made by the prisoner they had just examined, wished to know whether that special letter had been for warded to the friends. Captain Craig (the governor, who had been sent for) informed the jury that on February 26 the pri soner applied to him for permission to write a spe cial letter, and as he was a well behaved man he granted the application. Prisoners were only allowed to write a letter on their entry, and then on every three months. The deceased was not entitled to write until this month. That special letter was for warded to his family directly. A petition followed, and there was no doubt that if a certain woman had been found the deceased would have obtained his release. The deceased came from Winchester Gaol; the governor there, feeling highly interested in the prisoner, endeavoured to get a commutation of his sentence. He considered he was psrfectly inno cent, as did also he (Captain Craig). The de ceased was charged with stealing a Victoria Cross and several medals from a soldier who had created a disturbance in a brothel at Aldershot with a prostitute. Tae woman screamed ' Murder,' and the deceased (who was also a soldier) went to protect her. He thrashed the other soldier, during which his medals fell off. Deceased picked them up and put them on the mantel-shelf. They were, however, lost, and the deceased was eccused of the robbsry. The deceased also had a Victoria Cross and medals, and a pension of £lO a year for life ; the latter was, however, forfeited by the conviction. While the deceased was in that priso❑ an order from the Secretary of State arrived, directier; that the Victoria Cross which bad been obtained by the de• ces sed should be also forfeited, and this also affected the decca,se:?. A juror wished to know if a copy of the letter on the slate would be forwarded to the friends. Captain Craig replied that no transcript would be SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, THIRSK SPRING MEETING.—WEDNESDAY. The Scurry Handicap of 3 am each, with 20 added TN, C. Garotter (Marson) 1 Avongrove C. by Hospitality—Wensley (Carroll) 3 Also ran Sharpshooter's filly, and General Bixio: Betting-5 to 4 agst Garotter, sto 2 agst Wensley colt, 5 to 1 agst Avongrove. Won by two lengths; a neck between second and third. Match—Verger beat Mountain Fox. The Silver Cup of 50 sovs, for half-breds ; weight for age; winners extra ; gentlemen riders. About one mile and three-quarters. Mr W. H. Scott's Fly-by , Night, aged. 12st 121 b (Mr Wilkinson) 1 Mr Wilkinson's Rosemary, 5 yrs, list 101 b (Mr Boynton) 2 Major Stapylton's Southern Cross, 5 yrs, list 101 b (Captain Riddell) 3 Mr Croft's Lady Sutton, 4 yrs, 10st 101 b.... (Mr Wood) 4 The following also ran :—Tiger, Nancy, Nelly Grey, Chance, Witch, Young Tolletton, Mrs. Snick, Dr. Bowe, Squirrel], Bonnets o' Blue, and Cariboo. Betting-3 to I agst Tiger, 4to agst Fly• by-Night, sto 1 agst Rosemary, 6 to 1 agst Lady Sutton, 10 to 1 agst any other. Won by a length and a half; a bad third. Match—Emperor (Mr. Wood) beat Friar Tuck (J. Osborne). Betting-2 to lon Emperor. The Thirsk Handicap of 5 Boys each, with 100 added. About one mile and three.quarters. Mr W. I'Anson's Hypermnestra, 4 yrs, Est 71b (Harrison) 1 Mr Groves's Found Again, 3 yrs, sst 101 b .. (Cameron) 2 Mr Ridley's Wensley colt, 3 yrs, sst 81b (Stead) 3 Col. Townsley's Newchurch, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b (Metcalfe) 4 The following also ran :—Old Orange Girl, Bonny Bell, Unfashionable Beauty, Jester, and Hymettus. Betting-2 to 1 agst Found Again, sto 2 agst Hyperm nestra, 6 to 1 agst Newchurch, 7 to 1 each agst Orange Girl and Bonny Bell. Won by a length ; two lengths between second and third, and the same between third and fourth. The Tyro Stakes (Selling) of 3 sous each, with 25 added, for two-yr-olds. 4 fur, 132 yards. Catalogue Cheddington filly Vatty colt .... Betting-2 to lon Catalogue, sto 2 agat Vatty colt. Won easily. The Vatty colt did not pass the post. The North Riding Farmers' Cup, a piece of Plate, value 100 sous, added to a sweepstakes of 2 says each ; weight for age; winners extra. Two miles. Mr S. Case's Jew, 6 yrs (Owner) 1 Mr R. Well's Willey, 5 yrs (Ur Starke) 2 Mr H. Donton's Beeswing, 6 yra (Owner) 3 Mr G. Robinson's Polly Mr J. Robinson's Lord Clifton, 5 yrs .... (J. Harrison) 5 Mr A. Swarbreck's Silver Stripes, 5 yrs (Mr Hutchinson) 6 Mr S. Cass's Skyrocket, aged (Mr Harland) 7 Mr Nelson's Caller Ou, 6 ) rs (Owner) 8 Betting—Even on Caller Ou, 4 to 1 agst any other. EP: SCRATCIIINGS. INKERMAN PLATE —Gemma, Eastsheen, Trumps, and Quadrillo. CITY AND SUBURBAN—TippIer, Melandra, Blarney, Horse Marine, Lucky Star, Master Richard, Woodcraft, Old Fuller, bispute, Bon Soir, and Aurora. HEA.THCOTE PLATE—Reindeer, Gemma, Eastsheen, Gunner, and Quadrille. Two YEAR OLD—Le Mexician, Lovelace, and William the Fourth. NEW Two YEAR OLD—Le Beaunais, Oenone, Pauella, and Catenus. METROPOLITAN STAKES..—CaChUCa, Old Fuller, and Mekela. ROYAL VICTORIA YACHT CLUB. This famous club, flourishing numerically and financially to an extent that reflects the utmost credit even upon the position it occupies as the Red Squadron of the Solent, has issued its programme for 1861, and offers no less a sum than £6lO to be competed for on the occasion of its annual car nival. The programme is as follows : Tuesday, August 9—A piece of plate, value £lOO, given by the tradesmen of Ityde, for all vessels belonging to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club. Wednesday, August 10—The vessels of the club to sail in divisions under flag officers. Thursday, August 11—A cup given by the ladies of Ryde, exceeding £5O in value, with £75 added, for all vessels be longing to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, Friday, August 12—A prize of £5O, open to all schooners belonging to any Royal Yacht Club ; no restrictions as to ballast, crew, or canvas. Same day a prize of £ iO, open to all cutters belonging to any Royal Yacht Club ; no re- strictions as to ballast, crew, or canvass. Time race. Saturday, August 13—Boat races and other aquatic sports. Tuesday, August 16—The £lOO cup (the Commodore's cup), given by Commodore Charles Thelluson, for all vessels belonging to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, to be sailed for from Ryde to Torquay. Tuesday, August 23—Thre3 prizes given by Mr Thomas Broad wood, for all vessels belonging to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, to be sailed for from Torquay round theEddy stone Lighthouse to Plymouth Sound—First prize, a silver soup tureen, value £6O, for schooners; second prize, an ornamental piece of plate, value £lO, for cutters ; third prize, a piece of plate, value £l5, for ♦essels under 40 tons. The Torquay Regatta is definitively fixed for the ISth or 19th August, and will therefore take place is the presence of the Royal Victoria fleet, which will also bo present at Dartmouth during the regatta there in the last week in August. The Royal Western Regatta is expected to take place about the 25th and 26th of August, in which case the occa sion will be considerably enlivened, Is at Torquay and Dartmouth, by the presence of the red flag of the Royal Victorians. In looking over the programme of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club there will be found much in it that must com mend it to the favour of all true yachtsmen. There is not only the established number of smn.th water matches in sight of the Club house, and the more stately pageant of " division" sailing, but there is again this year the Channel matches, the fair dashings out into blue water, where the best craft and the most perfect seamanship stand a fair chance of reaping their due re ward. The matches this year down Channel may not, at first sight, appear to possess so great an amount of interest as did the race to Cherbourg last year, when, blessed w ith a moderato gale and a tumbling sea, the famous schooner Galatea and the equally famous cutter Marina passed inside the Cherbourg breakwater, each the first of her cla ss , an d soundly " whipped " the American schooner Gipsy, which was started with the competing craft to show them the way into Cherbourg roadstead. The matches down Channel this year, however, may prove to be quite as interesting if favoured on each day with a good stiff breeze a point or two on the bow. The Yelverton Case, The Appeal Committee oat yesterday for the first time this session, and, among other business, disposed of a petition presented by Mrs Yelverton f for an order on Major Yelver ton to pay her £5OO to enable her . to defend her interest in the appeal. Mr Stein, Parliamentary solicitor, and M r . W. Compton Smith, solicitor, Lincoln's-inn-fields, appeared 1:;." Mrs Yelverton; and Mr Tippetta, solicitor, Sise-lane, for MO: Yelverton. Mr Stein cited various authorities to show that the rule of law in such cases was that if a lady made out a strong prima facie case of marriage, the Court would, before the final decision, award her some alimony. The good faith of the case was wholly en her side. The defences which were pleaded were, he submitted, extremely dishonest, and, at all events, the burden of proving them clearly fell on Major Yelverton, and the Court of Session had decided that he had failed in the proof. In these circumstances he sub mitted that a man who had thus placed himself in the con di.ion of being prima facie married must bear the burdens of a husband in the first instance, and afford to the lady he had deserted the means of fairly trying the case on such a defence. Mr Tippetts argued that the cases cited did not apply, and that at all events the Court of Session, and not the Appeal Committee, was the proper tribunal to dispose of such an application. The Lord Chancellor said his own impression rather was that such applications should not be entertained before the Appeal Committee, bnt he found from the case of Blake, which had been referred to, that so far back as 1828 Lord Lyndhurst had acted on an opposite principle which could not now be disturbed. He thought that in this case the judgment of the Court of Session must, in the meantime, receive effect, and that this lady was for the present entitled to the status and rights of Major Yelverton's wife. The report of the committee would therefore be that Major Yelverton should pay her £l5O, and that her case should be lodged in three weeks, which would insure the cause being disposed of this session. ADVERTISEMENT.] -Avoid medicines: they always aggra vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's Delicious Health Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, invariably cures them, restoring perfect digestion, strong nerves, _sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. 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In tins, 1 lb., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d ; 51b., its. ; 121 b., 225. ; '4lb 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason ; and all Grocers and Chuniats i.d every town of the United Kingdom. SPIRIT OF THE PUELIC JOURNALS. POST.—To be able to hope in spite of discourage meets destructive of hope is to possess a quality which has on great authority received a high place among the Christian virtues. We are not, there fore, at liberty to scoff at those who solace them selves with the expectation that great good will come of the Conference to be held in London on the affairs of Denmark. We will try to imitate those excellent persons who hope the best under all cir cumstances and despair of nothing. We will not suffer ourselves to dwell upon the interference with anything like calm discussion and judicial equani mity which must result from the effects upon dif ferent parties of each day's telegrams from the seat of war. We will recount no more the chances against a peaceful solution which lie in the fact that both the assailants and the assailed are possessed by foregone conclusions. Nor will we spoil any possibility of a successful issue by throwing into the arena a single apple of discord out of the many that lie about on every side. We will be con tent to watch and wait, giving the Conference, in the meantime, our good wishes. It will do a good work if it succeed in terminating the war and placing the long vexed question of Schleswig-Hol stein upon a footing of permanent rest. It may do this, and we shall be glad to see it. But some things it can never do. It can never justify in the eyes of Europe the barbarity with which the war has been conducted. It can never wipe out the stains of blood needlessly shed which will long disgrace the policy of Austria and Prussia; nor can it allay the indignation with which the people of this country regard the proceedings of Germany. From various causes—not the least among which must be counted the family alliances which of late years have been contracted—there was till re cently a strong sympathy between the people of England and the Germans. That feeling has gone, and no Conference can resuscitate it. The feeling uppermost in almost every Englishman's mind is that two powerful States have combined to deal out the hardest possible measure to a weak one. That in doing so they have gone out of their way to be unsparing. Not only would they grant no terms, no armistice, no cessation from the daily stretch and struggle of almost hopeless self-defence, but they have done what they resolved to do with a ferocity that was needless, and a self-glorification that was inhuman. The bombastic orders of the day by Prince Charles would lead one to suppose that his soldiers had performed prodigies of valour in the face of a superior enemy, and had won glory through perils that had no precedent. Whereas the only credit to which they are entitled is that which two able-bodied men might claim for pounding a small boy within an inch of his life, or for attacking a defenceless woman. Talk of glory ! Has the military glory of Germany come to this that it must be freed from the better instincts of humanity before it can achieve con quest ? Is it any glory to swarm over a small ter ritory like rats, and then boast of the havoc which the many have wrought among the few ? Is it glory to shower fire and shot amongst women and children, and to slaughter brave men by the brute force of ten to one ? Let those who can glory in such deeds; let the two great Powers of Central Europe perform their prodigies of power over weak ness ; and let their princes proudly proclaim the heroic actions of superior numbers. These may be glory in the eyes of Germany, but in England the triumphs count for tyranny, the achievements for monstrous cruelty, and the proclamations for mere swagger. The heart of the nation is with Denmark as the heart of one man, Not one in ten, perheps not one in a hundred, can give.a rational account of the quarrel, or state the bearings of the Holstein question. But ninety-nine out of every hundred know that, be the question what it may, Austria and Prussia have adopted a tyrannous mode of solv ing it. They may know little of Danish or German treaties, but they know right from wrong, glory from rapine, fair fight from foul, reason from passion, and the necessary evils of war from its needless bru talties. The conduct of Germany is regarded in this country with downright abhorrence—so much so, that it requires the utmost prudence en the part of our statesmen to keep the popular enthusiasm from shouting aloud for Denmark at every opportunity and goading the Government into war. No doubt, neu trality is the wise and right course for this country, but the reasons are prudential rather than popular. There is scarcely a dinner-table amongst the highest classes where the wantonness of Austria and Prussia is not spoken of in terms of severe reprehension. In the less reserved circles of the Diddle and working classes the utterances are louder and deeper; and whether it be the unreasoning obstinacy of the Court of Berlin, or the overweening los'e of power at Vienna, or the paltry politics of Frankfort, or the intrigues of tho score or so of petty Sovereigns of even more petty principalities which make up the federation, the theme need only be German to draw forth at once expressions which imply the reverse of compliment and affection. We are not saying that this is right ; still less that it is wise ; but it is a fact. The German policy and its attendant cruelties—for they deserve no better name—hove scandalised the English mind. If counsels, long trained to rise superior to passion, did not at once control the impetuosity, while they command the confidence, of the whole country, the Channel fleet would leave for the Baltic in four and twenty hours, and Europe would blaze up with war. It remains to be seen what the Conference will do. We have seen what it cannot do. At the same time it is certain that something must be done. This terrible assault on Denmark must be stayed somehow. There is a point at which the neutral Powers of Europe must reconsider their attitude. Not the most pacific of European politicians is pre pared to see Denmark spunged out of the map. Yet the Germans show no signs of holding their hand ; and the heroic Danes still sell their lives at the dearest price known to inherent bravery and aggra vated sense of ill treatment. Welcome, then, the Conference, hopeless as its prospects are I Welcome anything that will but make an effort to stop the waste of blood, to secure that necessary fighting shall at least be fair, and that judicial wisdom shall undertake the problem which passion fails to solve. HERALD.—The bare suggestion that France had accepted the project of a Conference to arrange the Dano-German difficulty, with the popular will as a basis, or, in other words, that the Duchies should decide according to the views of those possessing most power and influence among them, has very naturally drawn attention to a subject of the greatest importance to the present and future well.-being of States and dynasties during times when some, at least, of these are considered not to be firmly established. If the dangerous prin ciple that the supposed will of the people is to supersede treaties regularly and solemnly r a tified be conceded, then there is not a power in Europe which may not well tremble for some part of its possessions. There is no kingdom so blessed with peace or united in its people which might not be disturbed with the prospect of independence held out to any of its sections. What has happened in Italy may well happen in Germany, in Russia, and elsewhere. When Earl Russell produced his famous . `^ to Turin, counselli ng th e d oc trine of na thsPs"--. e member of th e H ouse o f C om mons rose tionalit4- on that principle our tenure of and declared thaw -afe for a day, for that nni- Ireland would not be e. since for a severance of versal suffrage would pron. Extreme and most the connection with England. e en uttered in unlikely as this'statement appears eve action a time of internal union and peace, on retie ti rely ! and guided by experience, it will not seem so ea absurd and without foundation. If the men of lute.' ligence and property in Ireland had alone to deter-'' mine the matter there could be but little doubt of their loyal conclusion. But the decision would fall to numbers, that is, to prejudice, hatred, and igno rance, and to unscrupulous ambition acting on these. The momentous question would thus be left to the most incompetent and corrupt of judges. This must be the result of an appeal to the popular will every where. There may, of course, arise exceptional exi gencies where even the choice of numbers, the vox populi, if that could in some measure be obtained, would be preferable to any other arbitrament to de cide the vital problem of the government of a nation. But that the great Powers of Europe should allow a principle so purely revolutionary to enter the field of diplomacy is to believe that they would delibee rately propose the sentence of their own disinheri tance and condemnation. Our French correspon dent calls attention to the emphatic opinion of M. Guizot on the question of universal suffrage, deli vered before it had strength to found the Second Empire, and to combine various sections of the Ita lian governments into one kingdom. "No doubt," says the statesman and philosopher, " it should be the object, and it is the natural result, of good social institutions to raise progressively a greater number of men to that degree of intelligence and indepen dence which qualifies them to participate in the wielding of political power; but bet wean that prin ciple of free government and universal suffrage held up as the first and fundamental law of human so ciety, what a gulf ! What utter oblivion of an infi nite number of facts, rights, and truths which justly claim their rank and their share in soc:.alorganisa lion." Now, this forgetfulness of facts, rights, and truths is just the difficulty that Conservatives have always to contend against when opposing the popu lar views on the suffrage of which Mr. Bright, Mr. Baines, Mr. Locke King, and other prominent men of the extreme Radical school are the champions. It is very easy to talk of the rights of the working classes to a free voice in the election of members of Parliament, but in reality there is no right at all. The power to choose representatives in the Legis lature is the very highest in the kingdom—the and permance of all caw instautione rest upon this. It is preposterous to assert that this supreme authority is Lodged in the ignoran masses of the community alone; for this is the sole force and only result of universal suffrage, manhood suffrage, or such a low qualification as mu st amount to this or lead to it inevitably and soma. If the overwhelming working classes had any such natural right it would be most wise to abolioh it. But they have not ; for the State is held together by mutual sacrifices and concessions as the price of protection and peace. Political privileges, like All others existing in a nation, must result from labour, must be the price of toil, mast be the fruits of thrift and, saving, giving a man e:eclusive property, an d therefore a firm stake is the well-being of the cowl munity and kingdom. He on'at hold this property either as the immediate recosapense of hie own exertions, or inherit it from pera ° l3B having a right to confer it upon him. There ma y, it is true, be an amount of intelligence unallied to property, which ought to entitle a man to the french , ise , but this can never be as sound and incorruptible 0 basis for the suffrage as the qualification of prop erty , for the man who has most to lose will most dread need less and perilous change and revolution. The repetition of some very obvious political truths is not allege. ther an unnecessary duty now, when even oux Go vernment are not very chary of how the questios off the suffrage is to be treated so long as a tenure off office is still secured to them. We do not enspeet Lord Palmerston himself of any extreme opinions, but there are membrs of his Cabinet who eagerly desire to see the franchise lowered to the accession of numbers, or who, in other words, would place the real Government of this country in the bands of a wavering, unpropertied multitude. The six pound borough vote, the ten-pound county vote, without any sets-off or counterpoise, must lead ts this democratic conclusion. The upper and middle class votes would be swart. , ped by the swarming . working classes, who would obey their leaders and study what they considered to be their own immediate and special interests, no matter how ruinous to the per manent welfare of the kingdom. The adoption of the ballot involves this question of universal suffrage; for where you destroy the open vote you exclrids the) non-electors from their sole right in the represental'ion, and thus you make it only just that every one should enjoy the same electoral privilege. We do not fear that the proposal to adopt the popular wiLl as a new feature in, diplomacy will be acceptable to the crowned beads of Europe, although it should prove to be the facetious suggestion of an Emperor, if indeed the suggestion has been made ; but the dis cussion of this novel idea is in itself a ground for exposing its danger, not only to international con cord and peace. but to the stability of domestic institutions. When universal suffrage is named in connection with the Dino-German question, it is in some measure recommended for adoption as the rule of adjustment everywhere. It ought, therefore, to meet with no manner of entertainment. We all know what it means. It argues the will of the most influential, the most powerful, the most able in the state to corrupt or compel all the .others. It does not imply the real voice of the people or their independence or freedom. It it the open auction mart of slavery. Nor is it singular that our own English Radicals should be on the same monopolist track. When they contend for a wide extension of the suffrage and disregard the claims of the middle classes, they are on the rapid line which has led to the restriction of liberty and the ultimate control of the popular will by a dictatorship. But it is re markable that members of the British Government should fearlessly entertain and avow opinions proved by all history, and by recent experience in particular, to 133 incompatible with any form of free and liberal government. COUNTRY MARKETS. MONMOUTH—TunneI'. The local markets have been thinly attended during the last week, and the average quotations are as follows . Wheat, white 5s 3d to 5s 9d Barley. .3s4dto 2s 8d I Ditto red .0s Od to Os Od Oats 2s 2d to 2s 9d LYNN-TUESDAY. At to-day's market there was a moderate attendance and a fair show of wheat, with a dull trade, and the prices of week were barely obtained for all descriptions. White wheat 45s to 46s i Barley 34s to 36s Red.. 4ls to 42s 1 Grinding ..39s to 32s Beans .32s to 31 s 1 Oats.. Small 34s to 36s 1 Peas —s to —e HULL-TUESDAY. At to-day's market there was a tolerable supply of Eng lish wheat, and the trade quiet at scarcely last week's rates. A moderate supply of barley, and prices are unaltered. Wheat.... Old white per qr. 42s Od to 44s Od Old red IP Nev white .. „ New red .... „ Barley.... English malting 27s Od to 34s On Grinding 24s Od to 258 6d Saal and Odorbruck Holstein and Danish 3OB Od to 31a Od Grinding Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st oBl2ld to 13d Friesland and Dutch oBl3d to 08131 d Swedish and Danish 08124d to 0813 d Beans ....English, old, per qr New pigeon 428 Od to 44s Od New tick Egyptian 3os Od to 338 6d Peas ..Foreign boilers Grinding Tares ....Spring . Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushinc , . 4os Od to 52s Oa Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 10 0 to £9 15 0 Foreign: Bl5 oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes 5lO oto 0 0 0 Bones COAL MARKET. Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. e. d. Wylam 18 9 Eden Main 18 9 Holywell 17 0 faufield Moor Butes 11 9 tDia CPA , °. Walls End. Hatton 18 31 Hatton 20 6 Heugh Hall 19 3 1 naswell 2O 61 Whitworth ..16 6 Tanstall .... Ships at mark' Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUZ. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. April B. via Marseilles .. April IL Jrazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. May 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. April 2a, China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. April IS, via Marseilles ...April IZ. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, viu Southampton.. April 18. via Marseilles.... April 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton April 11. via Marseilles April 5. Portugal..., Malta, Egypt, and Ad en , v i a S out h amp t on April 11. via Marseilles Newfoundland .. April 13. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... April 13. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. April 8 W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe April 10. Bahamas, via New York May 5 Mexico .... April 28 All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I April 13. California. and Briti s h Columbia.. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.-.. There is no question whatever that rheumatism, neuralgia, and such like painful maladies have been more rife this seas'll3, than for some years past. The number of teeti. - m „i a ,; of cures effected by Holloway's remedies is unpre cedented id should be enforced o n th e a tt en ti o n o f a ll these complaints. The parts in pain should some minutes with warm brine, dried, and b su e ff fo er m er e s nt f e r d om foi. immediately well rubbed with the Ointment. It will pass into the pores of the skin, and gives the greatest relief. Many valuable lives are annually lest, which might ibe saved if early recourse in illness were made to these re. markable remedies, which must necessarily prove benefl. vial and cannot do harm. Births. CAMPBELL.—On the 4th inst., at 44, Charles-street, Ber• keley-square, the Hon. Mrs, Henry Campbell, of a daughter. _ _ RAGLAN.—On the 6th inst., Lady Raglan, of a son. TALBOT.—On the 6th inst.. at 23, St. James's-square, the Lady Emma Talbot, of a daughter. TAYLOR.—On the 6th inst., at Elizabeth-street, Eaton• square, the Lady Jane Taylor, of a daughter. Marriages. CTIAMITON—BELLASIS.—On Tuesday, the sth inst., at Our Lady's Church, St. John's-wood, by his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, Edward Charlton, M.D., of New castle-upon-Tyne, to Margaret Jane, eldest daughter of Edward Bellasis , Serjeant -at-Law. WEZELL—BEAUMONT.—On the sth inst„_ at the Catholio Chapel, Islington, and afterwards at St. Paul's, Knights bridge, Captain Count M. Gurowski de Wczell, KJ., to Diana, daughter of Capt, and Hon. Mrs. It. Beaumont. Deaths. ANDERSON.—On the 4th inst., at Bridge-end, Brech:nl N. 8., James Anderson, Esq., ageJ 86. BARKLIMoRE. 7 On the 2d inst., at Old Quebec-street, A. Barklimore, Esq., aged 86. BUTLER.—On the 2d inst., at her residence, Grosvenor square, the Right Hon. Margaret Lattretta, widow of Richard Butler, second Earl of Glengell. IsoAttrIELD. : -On the 4th inst., at 28, Grosvenor. street, W., Mrs. NV. E. ingarfiel i, aged 47. KNIGHT.—On the 6th inst., at Hainault House, Chigwell, Essex, John Knight, Esq., formerly of St. George's, E., aged 72. London: Printed and Prbiislied by IVILLIAA ANDR of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan Sum 0111ce Na. M. Strand, , n the Precinct of the 3avoy, n the Coin 'y of Idildleacx.ff-Thgroday, Aral 7, 1801. Walls End. East Hartlepool 20 ) South Hetton 20 ) K elloe 19 ) South Hartlepool.... l9 ) Braddyll's Hetton 19 3 Caradoc l9 3 South Kelloe 19 3 Gosforth lB 3 Trimdon Hartlepool 19 6 lieiperGrange 19 0 )t, 54 ; sold. 47.